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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230215T123000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T123230Z
UID:1527-1676464200-1676467800@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Biofuels
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alfred Fernández-Castané (Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) and Aston Institute of Materials Research (AIMR)\, Aston University) and Dr Vinod Kumar (VK) is a Senior Lecturer in Microbial Technology and Biorefining at Cranfield University discussed how biotechnology can be harnessed to accelerate biofuels production. \nView slide deck
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/biofuels/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T123357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T123456Z
UID:1530-1674045000-1674048600@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Hydrogen use in decarbonisation of transport
DESCRIPTION:Professor Robert Steinberger-Wilckens from the Centre for Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Research at the University of Birmingham discussed some of the latest research in hydrogen and the role of hydrogen based fuels in the future decarbonisation of road\, rail\, air and marine transport. \nView slide deck
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/hydrogen-use-in-decarbonisation-of-transport/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221214T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T123717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T124112Z
UID:1534-1671021000-1671024600@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Christmas Special
DESCRIPTION:In our Christmas special we give a whistle stop tour of the fantastic research that has been taking place across the ERA partnership in 2022. \nView slide deck
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/christmas-special/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T124259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T124259Z
UID:1543-1668601800-1668605400@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Decarbonising heat
DESCRIPTION:During this Net Zero Heroes webinar we bring together experts from academia. industry and government to discuss decarbonising heat and homes. \nEllie Horwitch-Smith (Assistant Director – Route to Net Zero\, Birmingham City Council.) \nEllie is an Assistant Director at Birmingham City Council. She is the strategic lead on net zero for and oversees a wide portfolio of projects and initiatives to deliver upon the councils Climate Emergency commitments and optimise the co-benefits that net zero presents. With a long-standing consultancy background in global and UK businesses\, she has led the development and delivery of a wide variety of projects with local authority and other public and private sector clients\, with particular expertise in heat and energy infrastructure and housing retrofit. Ellie is also Chair of the Sustainable Housing Action Partnership (SHAP)\, a not-for-profit member-led network supporting organisations and the supply chain to understand problems and develop solutions for large scale housing retrofit. \n Professor Mahroo Eftekhari (Professor\, Loughborough University) \nMahroo has a long-term interest in developing control systems\, fuzzy logic\, Model Predictive Controller MPC\, developing software for airport and strategies for buildings in order to reduce energy consumption while providing thermal comfort and improving occupant’s well-being. Her expertise lie in indoor air quality and thermal comfort\, HVAC and pipe network performance\, control systems and strategies for zero energy buildings\, Digital twin. \n Jeff House (External Affairs and Policy Director\, Baxi) \nJeff is the External Affairs and Policy Director at Baxi where he champions their vision to lead the UK and Irish markets in smart\, low carbon heating solutions. He is the chair of the Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) Policy Group and has over two decades of industry experience with a strong background in legislation and policy for the residential and commercial heating sector. He regularly represents both Baxi and the wider industry at Government and trade body meetings\, offering in-depth advice and analysis.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/decarbonising-heat/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T124434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T124434Z
UID:1546-1666182600-1666186200@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Circular Economy
DESCRIPTION:Systems thinking towards net zero chemicals\nProfessor Jin Xuan (University of Surrey)\nAccording to a United Nations report\, chemicals production and consumption are to be doubled in the next 10 years to fulfil our essential needs. It’s simply not going to happen unless we adopt a circular economy approach to enable net zero chemicals. The UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy was established in January 2021 to kick start the timely transition of the UK’s £32bn chemical industry into a circular system. In this talk\, I will discuss why we need a whole system approach and an interdisciplinary team to address the challenge. I will give some examples of the on-going research in our Centre to tackle the challenges in the development of the circular economy and net zero chemicals.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/circular-economy/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220720T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220720T133000
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CREATED:20230324T124750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T125340Z
UID:1550-1658320200-1658323800@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECR Special
DESCRIPTION:Find out about the fantastic research post-doctoral and doctoral researchers are doing to help drive forward the Net Zero Agenda. Confirmed speakers include Loughborough University and C-DICE Fellow Ben Roberts and the winner of the ERA Net Zero Doctoral Summer Showcase student talks Carmen Hierro Iglesias from Aston University. \nDr Ben Roberts is a Research Fellow in the Building Energy Research Group at Loughborough University. Ben has expertise in measuring thermal comfort and indoor air quality\, and is researching how buildings can provide optimal health and wellbeing in tropical climates he will speak about: “Monitoring indoor air quality in two hospitals in tropical climates to reduce transmission of airborne infectious disease”. \nCarmen Hierro Iglesias is a Bioprocess Engineering PhD student at Aston University. Her background is in industrial biotechnology and she is currently working on the sustainable production of biopolymers. She is interested in the use of microorganisms to transform biomass waste into bio-based products. This talk will be about the role of bioplastics in achieving a Net-Zero future. Carmen recently won first place in the ERA Net Zero Doctoral Summer Showcase student presentations. \nSiqi Wang is a PhD student in the Energy and Power department at Cranfield University with a background in Chemical and Process Engineering. Her current research is focused on developing catalysts and combined sorbent catalyst materials for blue hydrogen production. The title of her presentation is “Developing novel bi/polymetallic catalysts for (sorption enhanced) steam reforming of methane”. \nDr Tom Dolan is C-DICE Postdoctoral Research Fellow and UKCRIC Senior Research Fellow in the Infrastructure Systems Institute at UCL. Through his C-DICE Fellowship\, Tom is undertaking systemic research into the role National Infrastructure can play in addressing the Climate Emergen(t)cy. Tom will share systemic perspectives on the Climate Emergen(t)cy\, addressing the Climate Emergen(t)cy\, the role of National infrastructure as a systemic leverage point; and propose a set of Climate Emergency Success Factors (Systemic principles) that can be used to inform a systemically fit for purpose response to the Climate Emergen(t)cy. \n\n 
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/ecr-special-20-07-2022/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T125135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T125202Z
UID:1552-1652877000-1652880600@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Integrating Energy Storage with Renewable Energy Generation
DESCRIPTION:Dispatchable power from wind: Fantasy or engineering trivium?\nProf. Seamus Garvey\nThe UK’s best energy resource is wind. We have sufficient offshore wind resources to power all present energy consumption in the UK several times over and the costs-per-MWh of output energy are becoming very acceptable relative to coal-fired and gas-fired generation. Moreover\, wind has the very attractive feature that the resource is generally much higher in winter than in summer (the energy harvested in an average mid-winter day exceeds that collected in an average mid-summer day by a factor exceeding 2). Demand for energy also increases in winter but not by a factor of 2. Hence\, using a suitable blend of wind power and solar power (~80:20) in the UK can produce a net demand profile that does not have any strong seasonal (winter-summer) imbalance. Providing some small degree of over-capacity is very useful but there would still be many times when the wind resource is low but demand is high.  The phenomenon of having a few days without much wind during a deep cold spell in mid winter is not unusual and so several days worth of energy would have to come from somewhere during such times. Conceptually\, the most simple solution to that is to have very large energy stores to shore-up the requirement. However\, that is not be best solution. This talk will explain why. \nView slide deck\nIntegrating Battolysers (combined battery/electrolyser) with Renewable Energy Generation\nProf. Dani Strickland\nIn addressing net-zero targets\, it is recognized that green electricity alone is very unlikely to meet the requirements of the complete energy system\, for example in areas such as heavy transport. Therefore\, alternative energy sources will be required if ambitious decarbonization targets are to be achieved. Green hydrogen has been identified as a low carbon solution that can be used to meet these requirements. One approach to producing low carbon hydrogen is through the electrolysis of water using renewable electricity generation (for example wind or solar). However\, the cost of electrolyser technology is currently high and are not designed for intermittent operation. A novel alternative which is currently being explored to address these challenges is a battolyser. The battolyser acts like a battery until it is fully charged and then produces hydrogen gas. A single device which can produce both electricity and hydrogen has the potential to be more economically viable. This presentation explains what a battolyser is and how it can be integrated within the electricity grid.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/integrating-energy-storage-with-renewable-energy-generation/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220427T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220427T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T125608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T125608Z
UID:1555-1651062600-1651066200@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Hydrogen and the transition to a carbon neutral society
DESCRIPTION:Zero fossil carbon options for long distance transport\nProf Robert Steinberger-Wilckens (University of Birmingham)\nHydrogen is certainly the choice for decarbonising transport without having to make compromises about vehicle range. Nevertheless\, for many vehicles\, vessels and aircraft travelling long distances\, hydrogen takes up too much volume on board. The talk will explore how hydrogen can be converted into other compounds that can be more bunkered in less volume and still do not contain any fossil carbon. \nBlue hydrogen production by Sorption Enhanced Reforming (The HyPER Project)\nDr Peter Clough (Senior Lecturer in Energy Engineering\, Cranfield University)\nLow carbon hydrogen could play an important role for decarbonising industry\, power\, heat and transport. The Royal Society concluded that natural gas reforming with carbon capture and utilisation/storage (CCUS) was one of the most likely technologies to be deployed at scale in the near to mid-term. The HyPER project\, funded by the UK Government Department for Business\, Energy and Industrial Strategy\, proposes to answer the call for technology development leading to a low carbon\, cost effective\, bulk H2 supply through pilot scale demonstration of the sorption enhanced steam reforming process\, based on existing GTI technology. With our existing expertise of the process and collaborative industrial support we are aiming to demonstrate the process as an integrated system. This project is designing\, constructing and operating a 1 MWth sorption enhanced steam reforming pilot plant reactor capable of producing a pressurised H2 stream and demonstrate the ability to achieve CO2 capture rates of >96%. The technology demonstrated in this project is expected to show the potential for reducing CAPEX by 50% relative to SMR/ATR+CCS.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/hydrogen-and-the-transition-to-a-carbon-neutral-society/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220406T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220406T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T125713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T125713Z
UID:1557-1649248200-1649251800@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Energy Transitions – A Policy and Politics Perspective
DESCRIPTION:During this webinar Dr Caroline Kuzemko (University of Warwick) and Cheryl Hiles\, Director of Energy Capital at the West Midlands Combined Authority discussed the sustainable energy transition agenda through a policy and politics lens. Dr Caroline Kuzemko talk focused on some of the ways in which it is possible to harness the power of politics to challenge business-as-usual and drive more equitable change\, whilst Cheryl Hiles\, presented on the West Midlands Combined Authority’s vision to transition the West Midlands to net zero carbon emissions region.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/energy-transitions-a-policy-and-politics-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T125802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T125812Z
UID:1559-1645014600-1645018200@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Decarbonisation of Transport - part 2
DESCRIPTION:Transport in the UK is the largest emitter of CO2 emissions\, in order to meet the Governments ambitious goals of Net Zero 2050\, significant reductions need to be realised. During this webinar\, Professor Sarah Sharples (Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport) talked about the challenges faced in decarbonising transport\, and describe some of the current R&D being undertaken by DfT to support the decarbonisation of transport. \nSarah is a Professor of Human Factors in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham and from 2018-2021 was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Equality\, Diversity & Inclusion and People. She has led research in transport\, manufacturing and healthcare\, and currently leads the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) Connected Everything Network Plus. She founded and co-director of the EPSRC Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training\, and has led research programmes examining implementation of new technologies in rail\, highways and aviation. She was President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors from 2015-16.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/decarbonisation-of-transport-part-2/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T125905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T125905Z
UID:1562-1642595400-1642599000@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Decarbonisation of Transport - part 1\, an ERA perspective
DESCRIPTION:During this webinar Faye McAnulla gave an overview of the project Decarbonising Heavy Transport in The Midlands: H2GVMIDS\, Thomas Steffen (Loughborough University) talked about the contribution Electric Vehicles (EVs) can make towards a net zero future\, and Frank Tutu (EDF R&D UK Centre) presented on how EDF is working towards decarbonising transport. \nElectric Vehicles as a Key Enabler for the Decarbonisation of Our Electricity Grid: Dr. Thomas Steffen (Loughborough University).       \nThis presentation originates from the Future of Technology Series\, and it discusses the contribution Electric Vehicles (EVs) can make towards a net zero future. Renewable generation is notoriously volatile\, and smart charging of EVs offers a simple yet effective opportunity to shift the charging load to periods of excess generation. Thus\, smart charging provides private and public benefits\, and this research explores how both can be aligned. Because of the limited capacity\, EVs will only be able to provide daily or weekly storage\, while seasonal flexibility could be achieved via hydrogen storage in combination with hybrid vehicles. \nHy4Fleets: Frank Tutu (EDF R&D UK Centre). \nHy4Fleets was a feasibility study project that developed and tested the value for an assessment tool to support decision-making and encourage the transition of diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) to hydrogen fuel cell fleets. The project’s main goal was to address the gap in technical and economic insights on the hydrogen switching process that presents a barrier to the uptake of hydrogen vehicles by fleet operators.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/decarbonisation-of-transport-part-1-an-era-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211215T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T125946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T113526Z
UID:1564-1639571400-1639575000@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Whistle Stop Tour of Energy Research Happening Across the Midlands
DESCRIPTION:During our Christmas Special ERA Net Zero Heroes webinar we showcase all the fantastic energy research that is happening at the ERA partner universities. Our partners gave a brief summary of the research\, innovation and commercial developments in green energy that have taken place at their institution during 2021. \n\n 
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/whistle-stop-tour-of-energy-research-happening-across-the-midlands/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T130035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T130035Z
UID:1566-1637152200-1637155800@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Making smart local energy systems happen
DESCRIPTION:Christoph Mazur from Engie was joined by Tobiloba Elusakin from Trilateral Research and Amruta Joshi from the University of Birmingham to discuss the implementation of smart energy systems. Christoph Mazur is Project Lead of Zero Carbon Rugeley\, a project to produce an innovative design for a town-wide Smart Local Energy System (SLES) including the former Rugeley Power Station site. This project will demonstrate how carbon emissions and energy costs can be reduced whilst also providing a boost for local regeneration. Dr Amruta Joshi from University of Birmingham specialises in supporting businesses with needs in renewable energy\, optimisation of energy storage for different applications\, and energy efficiency analysis. Her talk highlights smart energy system implementation strategies for SMEs with exemplar case studies; reemphasising the contribution of SMEs in the UK’s action on climate change and hence\, the need to address their challenges. Dr Tobi Elusakin is a Research Analyst within the Applied Research and Innovation (ARI) team at Trilateral. During his talk he discusses the EERA data project that proposed and is implementing a data framework to help assess the impacts of energy efficiency investments by taking into account all the relevant building-stock\, energy\, environmental and socio-economic data in order to assist local government administrators in assessing and prioritising energy efficiency measures in the modernisation and renovation of buildings.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/making-smart-local-energy-systems-happen/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T130302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T130302Z
UID:1568-1634733000-1634736600@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Black Researcher Special
DESCRIPTION:As part of ERA’s Black History Month Celebrations\, we have invited two of our black researchers\, Eugene Boadu (Keele University) and Dr Shandelle Steadman (Cranfield University) to talk about the exciting research they are carrying out. Check out the recording of their talks below: \n Would you like to trade your energy?\nDr Shandelle Steadman\nAs energy markets are becoming more decentralised\, energy trading platforms are emerging as potential tools to facilitate the coordination of energy consumption and generation. Shandelle’s presentation will provide an overview of her research on the factors that affect indivial consumer’s and prosumer’s willingness to participate in a peer-to-peer energy trading platform. Focusing on a set of three European countries\, it disentangles the effectiveness of both economic and non-economic incentives in fostering energy trade via intermediate platforms.  Check out the talk Shandelle gave as part of the ERA Black History Month Net Zero Heroes Special below: \n\nClimate Change mitigation and adaptation: Role of multinational enterprise subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa\nEugene Boadu\nClimate change continues to pose risk to humanity. Continents such as Africa is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. The project aims to examine\, at a granular level\, the strategies used by multinational subsidiaries in mitigating and adapting to climate change within the context of developing countries. Empirical data will be obtained through the interview of relevant officials in selected subsidiaries in Ghana. It is hoped that the outcome of the research will provide policy and academic literature on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Check out the talk Eugene gave as part of the ERA Black History Month Net Zero Heroes Special below: \n\n 
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/black-researcher-special/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T001550
CREATED:20230324T130426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T130426Z
UID:1570-1632313800-1632317400@www.era.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Post Doc Appreciation Week Special: The Life of a Postdoc!
DESCRIPTION:Our speakers Dr Barton Chen (University of Exeter)\,  and Dr Sarah Yasir (Cranfield University) provide an insight into the variety of research being carried out by postdoc across the ERA network. They give a short overview of their research\, outline what they do as a post doc and how this differs from when they were a PhD student\, both from a research and more personal perspective. \nDr Jorge López Ordovas (kalfrisa) talks about Reseacrh in Academia and Industry.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/post-doc-appreciation-week-special/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.era.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/net-zero-heroes-webinar.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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